Green textiles.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Briefly Noted - Exhibit entitled 'Green: The Color and the Cause' - Brief article

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Many of the baskets, tapestries, and quilts in Green: The Color and the Cause at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., are visually intriguing, but unfortunately the environmental theme required a series of hectoring artist statements. The exhibit, which closed in September, mixes old fabrics, such as a fourth-century Roman tapestry featuring a female figure, with contemporary weavings.

Emily Dvorin's Verdundant, a spiky basket resembling an alien cactus concocted of green electrical wire, electrical connectors, and cable...